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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    KLocale related changes in 4.7
From:       John Layt <john () layt ! net>
Date:       2011-05-09 18:23:27
Message-ID: 201105091923.27329.john () layt ! net
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Hi guys,

I'm sure you've noticed already, but I've added a few new features to KLocale 
and the Locale KCM that I thought I'd explain.

1) Narrow Names:
I've added support for Narrow month and day name formats, i.e. M for Monday, J 
for January, etc.  These are mostly used for display in small form-factor 
gui's such as calendar widgets and unlike the longer form names the narrow 
strings do not need to be unique as they are not used in reading dates.

2) Week Number System:
I've added support for different week number calculations, primarily those 
used in the USA.  I hope the help text in the KCM makes sense, ping me if they 
don't.  Also let me know if your country has a week number system not yet 
supported.

3) Digit Grouping
This allows different formats for number groups such as Indian format 
12,34,56,789.00.  Again let me know if the help text isn't clear, or if your 
country has a format not yet supported.  I haven't changed the locale file 
default value for India as KLocale::readNumber() is strict in applying the 
grouping (existing behaviour) so users would suddenly find their number entry 
failing and not know why.

I also did a small clean-up of the KCalendarSystem translation contexts to be 
consistantly formatted, hope that didn't cause too much work unfuzzying them.

Cheers!

John.
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